Massachusetts Institute of Technology

by Yin Sun (Author), Igor Kadota (Author), Rajat Talak (Author), Eytan Modiano (Author), R. Srikant (Editor)
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by Elisabeth Mansfield (Author), Debra L. Kaiser (Author), Daisuke Fujita (Author), Marcel Van de Voorde (Author)

by Guy P. Brasseur (Author), Daniel J. Jacob (Author)

Two prominent specialists team up to explore this exciting new frontier in Introduction to Nanotechnology: The New Science of Small. In 24 accessible and visually rich half-hour lectures, you get an in-depth explanation of nanotechnology and how it is possible to work in a domain that is nine orders of magnitude smaller than humans—comparable to the difference in scale between you and the sun.

Four decades ago, J.P. Den Hartog, then Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, wrote Strength of Materials, an elementary text that still enjoys great popularity in engineering schools throughout the world.